A slow moving storm system along with locally heavy rainfall produced isolated flooding reports.
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The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
A slow moving storm system along with locally heavy rainfall produced isolated flooding reports.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Springfield, MO wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 3, 11:49 PM CST, 2 hours 11 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 1149 PM CST FRI FEB 3 2012 ...UPDATE TO AVIATION... .DISCUSSION... THE MAIN FORECAST CONCERNS WILL PERTAIN TO THE STORM SYSTEM THAT IS CURRENTLY IMPACTING THE REGION. ITEMS UNDER CONSIDERATION INCLUDE CONVECTIVE POTENTIAL...RAINFALL AMOUNTS...FOG...AND THE POTENTIAL FOR WINTRY PRECIPITATION OVER THE NEXT 48 HOURS. TEMPERATURES WILL BE NO PICNIC EITHER...ESPECIALLY HOURLY TRENDS. CURRENTLY...SURFACE LOW PRESSURE IS ANALYZED NEAR THE OKLAHOMA CITY METROPOLITAN AREA. A COLD FRONT TRAILS THE LOW INTO WEST TEXAS. A SYNOPTIC WARM FRONT EXTENDS SOUTHEAST FROM THE LOW INTO THE ARKLATEX REGION. A WEAKER WARM FRONT/SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDS NORTHEAST FROM THE LOW INTO CENTRAL MISSOURI. IN THE UPPER LEVELS OF THE ATMOSPHERE...WATER VAPOR IMAGERY NICELY DEPICTS A CLOSED LOW ACROSS THE CENTRAL HIGH PLAINS. A LARGE SHIELD RAIN AND EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUES ALONG AND EAST OF THE INTERSTATE 35 CORRIDOR AHEAD OF THIS LOW...IN WHAT IS A STRONGLY DIFFLUENT UPPER LEVEL FLOW. HEADING INTO TONIGHT...THIS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL BEGIN TO VERTICALLY STACK ACROSS THE CENTRAL PLAINS. WITH THE SURFACE LOW PASSING TO OUR WEST...WE WILL REMAIN IN THE WARM SECTOR. SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED...WITH TWO MAIN AREAS OF FOCUS. THE FIRST AREA WILL BE NEAR THAT AFOREMENTIONED SURFACE TROUGH AS A LOW LEVEL JET STRENGTHENS AND OVERRIDES THIS FEATURE. THE SECOND AREA WILL BE AS THAT SURFACE FRONT SURGES EAST ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA. CONVECTION ALONG THIS FEATURE MAY ALSO SHUNT NORTHEAST INTO THE AREA. JUST NOT SEEING ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR A SEVERE THREAT. WILL HAVE TO WATCH PORTIONS OF WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI AS THEY MAY PICK UP AROUND AN INCH AND A HALF OF RAINFALL BY THE TIME THE RAIN ENDS. COULD SEE SOME DECENT RISES IN STREAMS AND EVENTUALLY MAIN STEM RIVERS. BY LATE TONIGHT...DRIZZLE MAY BECOME THE PREDOMINANT PRECIPITATION TYPE WEST OF HIGHWAY 65 AS A DRY SLOT WORKS INTO THE AREA. AS THAT WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH TONIGHT...THE SETUP APPEARS PRETTY FAVORABLE FOR FOG ALONG AND SOUTH OF THE OZARK PLATEAU. CONSIDERED A DENSE FOG ADVISORY...BUT QUESTIONS REMAIN REGARDING THE COVERAGE AND OVERALL VISIBILITIES DUE TO THE EXPECTED PRECIPITATION. TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL ALSO BE TROUBLESOME WITH MANY AREAS SEEING THEIR LOWS SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET. THE FOG AND DRIZZLE THREAT MAY THEN CONTINUE INTO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AS THAT DRY SLOT REMAINS OVER THE REGION. WE MAY ALSO SEE A LEFT OVER SHOWER OR THUNDERSTORM ACROSS THE EASTERN OZARKS EARLY IN THE MORNING AS THAT FRONT CLEARS THE AREA. THAT UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL THEN BEGIN TO SHEAR AND DRIFT SOUTHEAST LATER SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. THIS MAY BRING YET ANOTHER BOUT OF LIGHT PRECIPITATION TO THE AREA FROM LATE SATURDAY INTO EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. CLOUD ICE REMAINS IN QUESTION FOR THIS TIME PERIOD...SO HAVE GONE WITH A LIGHT RAIN/DRIZZLE APPROACH. AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT SURFACE TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN TOO WARM FOR FROZEN PRECIPITATION. ONCE THIS STORM SYSTEM CLEARS THE AREA...THE LONG WAVE PATTERN WILL SUPPORT A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS DO BRING UPPER LEVEL ENERGY OUT OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES TOWARDS THE OZARKS BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. TIMING OF THIS SYSTEM WILL BE TOUGH AS IT WILL BE CUT OFF FROM THE MAIN WESTERLIES. HAVE THEREFORE KEPT POPS AT OR BELOW 20 PERCENT. ALTHOUGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE COOLER NEXT WEEK...WE ARE STILL LOOKING AT SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES. SCHAUMANN && .AVIATION... /ISSUED 1136 PM CST FRI FEB 3 2012/ FOR THE 04/0600Z KSGF/KJLN/KBBG TAFS...AN AREA OF RAIN/ISOLD TSTMS HAS PUSHED EAST OF THE TAF SITES...JUST EXITING THE KBBG AREA ATTM. VARYING CEILINGS ARE OCCURRING IN THE WAKE OF THE RAIN...BUT IN GENERAL EXPECT LOWER CEILINGS UNTIL WINDS VEER TO THE SW AND WEST AS LOW PRESSURE OVER FAR SE KS CONTINUES TO SHIFT NORTHEAST. GUSTY WEST WINDS WILL OCCUR DURING THE DAY SATURDAY WITH GENERALLY IMPROVING MVFR CEILINGS. DSA && .SGF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MO...NONE. KS...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPRINGFIELD MO 859 PM CST FRI FEB 3 2012 KSZ073-097-101-MOZ055>058-066>071-077>083-088>098-101>106-050300- BOURBON-CRAWFORD-CHEROKEE-BENTON-MORGAN-MILLER-MARIES-VERNON- ST. CLAIR-HICKORY-CAMDEN-PULASKI-PHELPS-BARTON-CEDAR-POLK-DALLAS- LACLEDE-TEXAS-DENT-JASPER-DADE-GREENE-WEBSTER-WRIGHT-NEWTON- LAWRENCE-CHRISTIAN-DOUGLAS-HOWELL-SHANNON-MCDONALD-BARRY-STONE- TANEY-OZARK-OREGON- 859 PM CST FRI FEB 3 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS AND EXTREME SOUTHEAST KANSAS. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. WEATHER HAZARDS EXPECTED... LIMITED LIGHTNING RISK. LIMITED DENSE FOG RISK. DISCUSSION... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSSIBLE...EAST OF A LINE FROM ANDERSON TO WARSAW THIS EVENING. AREAS OF DENSE FOG WILL ALSO BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY IN HIGHER ELEVATION TERRAIN OF THE MISSOURI OZARKS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL REMAIN POSSIBLE EARLY SATURDAY MORNING EAST OF HIGHWAY 63 IN SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI. NON THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS AROUND 30 MPH ARE EXPECTED ACROSS PORTIONS OF WESTERN MISSOURI AND EXTREME SOUTHEASTERN KANSAS ON SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED THROUGH TONIGHT. && THIS PRODUCT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN GRAPHICAL FORMAT...ALONG WITH OTHER WEATHER...HYDROLOGICAL AND CLIMATE INFORMATION...AT HTTP://WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/SGF(ALL LOWERCASE) DSA
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Low water crossing were closed due to high water along Highway T. The Ozark County Sheriff's office reported that this low water crossing commonly floods.
Low water crossings along Highway 142 near the Bennetts River was closed due to high water. The Howell County Sheriff's office reports that this low water crossing commonly floods.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Missouri in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Missouri, February 2012
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 357872, 357879.